| Instructor: R. N. "Herb" McGrath | Phone: 863-0692 |
| Office: 330B Thomas Bldg. (enter through 330 Thomas) | email: mcgrath@stat.psu.edu |
Instructor Office Hours: M 9:00 – 10:30, W 9:00 – 10:30 (or by appointment)
Lecture - 101 Thomas M W F 8:00 - 8:50 All Sections
Recitation - Section 1 T Th 8:00 - 8:50 316 Boucke
Section 3 T Th 8:00 - 8:50 314 Boucke
Section 4 T Th 9:05 - 9:55 317 Boucke
Section 5 T Th 8:00 - 8:50 145 Fenske
Section 6 T Th 9:05 - 9:55 145 Fenske
Course Structure:
The course material is taught in the Monday, Wednesday, Friday lectures.
The recitation sections on Tuesdays will consist of reviewing lecture subjects
(if appropriate), discussion of homework problems, and some fun, exciting,
and educational activities. Thursday recitations will also include subject
reviews and discussion of homework problems as well as all exams and quizzes.
Note: There will be an exam or quiz every Thursday with the exception
of 8/27 and 11/26. You are required to bring your textbook and a calculator
with a square root sign (
) to
all recitations. You also must bring a calculator to each exam.
You are expected to attend all lectures. Although attendance is not taken, you might feel really guilty if you skip class. Each section will have a teaching assistant (TA) that will be responsible for the recitations, grading of quizzes and exams, etc. Each TA will have office hours (to be announced soon). You may attend the office hours of any or all TAs and the instructor.
Grades: Grades will be based on a 500-point scale as follows:
| Source | Number and points | Dates |
| Quizzes | 10 @ 15 points each
Drop the lowest two (total = 130 points) |
9/3, 9/10, 9/24, 10/1, 10/15,
10/22, 11/5, 11/12, 12/3, 12/10 |
| Exams | 4 @ 50 points each (total = 200 points) | 9/17, 10/8, 10/29, 11/19 |
| Mini-Project(s) | (total = 50 points) | TBD |
| Questionnaires, Misc. | (total = 20 points) | 8/27, TBD |
| ComprehensiveFinal | 100 points | 12/16 |
| Total | 500 points |
Quizzes: Each quiz will cover material from lectures taught after the preceding quiz or exam. Quizzes will be closed book / closed notes. Necessary formulas will be provided. Make-ups for quizzes will not be allowed. The two lowest quizzes are dropped to allow for any conflict that may arise. It is in your best interest to study for and take every quiz.
Homework: Homework will be assigned based on each lecture. Although homework will not be collected or graded (unless otherwise specified), you are strongly encouraged to do the homework before attending recitation. Exam questions will closely follow the homework problems. Those who do well on the homework should do well on the exams.
Mini-Project(s): One or two small projects will be given. The projects will focus on real-life applications of statistics.
Exams: Exams will be held during the scheduled Thursday recitation times, but will be in different rooms. (The exam locations will be announced at a later date.) You will be allowed to bring one 8.5" x 11" sheet (both sides) of prepared notes to each exam. Make-ups will only be given if an official written explanation of a University-approved conflict is provided to the instructor before the exam. For medical or legitimate family emergencies, the instructor must be notified (by email or in person) by the following day with a written excuse provided as soon as possible thereafter.
Final Exam: The final will be comprehensive. Roughly 50% of the exam will cover lecture material from after the fourth exam. The other 50% will be on concepts covered in the rest of the course. You will be allowed to bring and use any notes (but not the textbook).
Web Site: A very basic Web site for this course is located at http://www.stat.psu.edu/~mcgrath/stat200/. This will mainly be used for announcements and information dissemination. All weekly sheets and some handouts will be available here. Most, if not all, of these will be Microsoft Word documents.
Statistical Software: The statistical software package MINITAB will be used during lecture to provide examples. You are responsible for understanding MINITAB output and may find it advantageous to use MINITAB for the mini-projects. Thus, you may want to use your CAC account to access MINITAB and learn how to perform various statistical analyses.
Handouts: At least once per week a handout will be provided in lecture. These handouts will be placed on tables in the back of 101 Thomas. Take one as you enter the room. Extra handouts will always be available in 332 Thomas and some will be on the Web page.
Course Prerequisite: 2 units of Algebra.
Required Text: Johnson, Richard A. & Bhattacharyya, Gouri K., Statistics: Principles and Methods, Third Edition, 1996, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Also, a solutions manual is on reserve in the Math Library, 109 McAllister
Course Outline: The course will follow the textbook closely. However, some topics may be taught in a different style from the text while other topics may not be in the text at all. Therefore, class attendance is strongly suggested. Chapters 2-10 will be covered in-depth. Topics will be selected from Chapters 11 - 14.
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Organization and description of data |
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Probability |
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Probability distributions |
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The normal distribution |
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Variation in repeated samples - Sampling distributions |
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Confidence intervals for a population mean |
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Testing hypotheses about a population mean |
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Confidence intervals for a population proportion |
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Testing hypotheses about a population proportion |
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Comparing two treatments |
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Analysis of variance |
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Simple linear regression |
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Analysis of categorical data |